Re: Weak ETags and on-the-fly gzipping

2013-06-16 Thread Matthijs Langenberg
uests. So by adding something like: if (is_strong_etag(r)) { ngx_http_clear_etag(r) } We would allow applications to set weak Etags for caching. On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Maxim Dounin wrote: > Hello! > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 02:58:33PM +0200, Matthijs Langenberg wro

Weak ETags and on-the-fly gzipping

2013-06-15 Thread Matthijs Langenberg
I am serving dynamic requests behind the Nginx HTTP server. HTTP requests are mostly from mobile HTTP clients. That's is why I care about two things. 1. Do not send the same representation twice: Use ETag caching mechanism. 2. Make better us of available bandwidth: Use Accept-Encoding HTTP compres